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. 2021 Oct 20;2021(10):CD011723. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011723.pub2

Brown 2017.

Study characteristics
Methods Study design: randomized controlled trial
Study grouping: parallel group
Participants Substance: various substances
Baseline characteristics
Mindfulness‐based intervention
  • Number randomized: 15


Control 1
  • Number randomized: 13


Overall
  • Number randomized: 28


Included criteria: recent report to or open case with child protective services, case low‐to‐moderate risk and involved parental substance use as presenting problem, children remained in the home or parents had weekly visitation, parent English speaking
Excluded criteria: case involved sexual abuse, family in extreme crisis
Number missing: 7
Reason missing: "too much on plate", moved, personal life changes, unreachable
Baseline differences: none
Age: 31
Percent female: 81%
Race/Ethnicity: 71.4% White, 14.3% Latinx, 9.5% Black, 4.5% other
Interventions Intervention characteristics
Mindfulness‐based intervention
  • Group name: Mindfulness‐oriented recovery enhancement Child Welfare

  • Theory: Garland (2013)

  • Duration: 6 weeks

  • Timing: 1x week for 1 hour

  • Delivery: individual

  • Providers: principal investigator trained in mindfulness

  • Co‐intervention: none

  • Integrity: not reported

  • Compliance: not reported


Control 1: No treatment control
  • Co‐intervention: case management as usual

Outcomes Treatment acceptability (attrition)
  • Outcome type: dichotomous outcome

  • Reporting: fully reported

  • Direction: lower is better

  • Data value: endpoint

  • Time point: post‐treatment

Identification Sponsorship source: none reported
Country: USA
Setting: not residential
Authors name: Samantha Marie Brown
Institution: University of Denver
Email: not available
Address: not available
COI: not reported
Diagnosis tool: Mini International Neuropsychiatry Interview; Simple Screening Instrument for Substance Abuse
Diagnosis type: formal
Funding: none reported
Journal: dissertation
Publication type: dissertation
Secondary Publications: none
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Judgement comment: not reported
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Judgement comment: not reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes High risk Judgement comment: no blinding
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
Treatment acceptability (attrition) Low risk Objective measure
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes Low risk Judgement comment: drop out rates and reasons similar across groups (p. 41)
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Judgement comment: no protocol available, no statement of primary outcome
Other bias: equivalence of baseline characteristics (selection bias) Low risk Judgement comment: no baseline differences